The State as a Limited but Essential Expression of Americans’ Shared Life

At The American Conservative, David Jimenez writes that beyond the compromises Trumpian politics have made on trade and immigration, conservative must once again focus on America’s “great common enterprise.”

The Right must again recover the wisdom held by Disraeli, Churchill, and the (early) domestic neoconservatives, in which the state is again recognized as a limited but essential expression of our shared life together, where we are members not just of a market but a “great common enterprise” in which solidarity and justice are indeed tangible things. Accepting this truth will be a harder project than tightening the border and combating Chinese mercantilism, worthy though such things may be. But it will be far more revolutionary, even historic, than anything the present Trumpian revolution offers.